Breathing fresh air into the debate: Ventilators and the United States' intellectual property problem

In 2006, the U.S. federal government launched a project to create a cheap, easily produced, and easy to use ventilator that could be stored for long periods of time for pandemic response. Despite successful funding and contracts with two separate medical device companies, not a single ventilator had...

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Main Authors: Theora W. Tiffney, Robert Cook-Deegan, Heather M. Ross
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-12-01
Series:Health Policy Open
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590229622000041